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@Cyclodunc
that. was. wonderful.
how on earth did you people do it so quickly?!?
I left at 20:30, arrived at 06:30. 10 hours including a long feed station stop and some other short ones too. nice round number.
Well done all. It was great fun. Smashed my time from last year. Everyone was so friendly and happy (nearly) all the way. Good to meet some people on here, including chap with lovely Mercian who I spoke to at the accident outside Epping (get well soon, btw.)
Bell man was ace. As was a cache of goodies my friend from Needham left me at the lake. I instructed him to leave energy bars, bananas etc. He instead packed a bag of suff that a serial killer is likely to have in his possession: tins of ham, doctor octopus action figure, barking toy poodle, christian romantic novel, a page from a medical dictionary, Libra 1983 horoscope book, leaflet about dealing with the abuse of elderly... in Bengali.
Slightly hairy moment was when a discarded bottle went under my wheels on a big descent. Luckily my tourer's stability kicked in.
See you out there next year.